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Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand ( April 1 , 1868 - December 2 , 1918 ), French Poet and Dramatist . Rostand is associated with Neo-romanticism , and is best-known for his play '' Cyrano De Bergerac ''. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the Naturalist ic theatre popular during the late 19th Century . One of Rostand's works, ''The Romancers'', has been adapted as the highly successful Musical Comedy '' The Fantasticks ''. Edmond Rostand was born in Marseille , France , into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was an Economist and a poet, a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut De France . Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris , France. In 1901, Rostand became the youngest writer to be elected to the Académie Française . In the 1900s , Rostand came to live in the Villa Arnaga in Cambo-les-Bains in the French Basque Country looking for a cure for his Pleurisy . The house is now a heritage site and a museum of Rostand's life and Basque architecture and crafts. Rostand died in 1918 , a victim of the Great Flu Epidemic , and is buried in the Cimetière de Marseille. SELECTED WORKS
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